Jane 6, 1813. ] 



JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



At the Eed House vre are again, at the edge of the river. 

 Here we observe that there is a " tide." Looking out at the 

 windows of this beautifully-kept picnic house, the river is 

 vei-y fine ; looking back to where it dies out of sight in the 

 wooded banks near the old mansion, it is like a beautiful lake 

 with thick- wooded islands, and the water is enlivened with 

 pleasure boats, and a whole fleet of "cotes" tiEhing for 

 salmon. 



From the Red House we turn to the right up the glen along 

 a crooked path, and ai-e dii'ectly in front of a waterfall with 

 steep banks on each side, which seem to forbid farther pro- 

 gress. However, we scramble up a rugged path and find a 

 very pretty Swiss cottage. This cottage is " private," which is 

 rather amusing when the housekeeper presents the volumes 

 of names of those who have enjoyed themselves in this ro- 

 mantic spot, and have left written effusions that would be 

 worth a fortune to those who deal in manufactured literature. 

 Farther we must go to see the trees, and the ups and downs, 

 and crossing slippery stones and bridges of difficulty, bring to 

 mind long-forgotten portions of the " Pilgi-im's Progi-ess." 



Such masses of Hyjinum spleudcns ! and here the Filmy 

 Fem could be lifted liy the square yard. Then we come upon 

 ten square yards of Eoyal Fern in one mass, with fronds 

 (J feet high. ' In this glen we find Finns excelsa gi-owiug most 

 luxuriantl}'. This tree we greatly admire as it is seen here. 

 The Deodar is also very promising ; more of the Gryptomeria 

 should be i)lanted in this glen ; the Ehododendi'ons are spread- 

 ing with amazing rapidity ; the Norway Maple and Thorn 

 .\cacia ai-e growing into fine trees, and will be a grand picture 

 in this glen in the autumn. A few Ai-aucarias are planted 

 here, but they are not promising. We must now leave the 

 wild woods and turn to the gardens at Woodstock. 



IXOYD'S AVALL-TBEE .\nd PLANT PKOTECTOES. 

 The increasing uncertainty of obtaining fruit from trees on 

 open walls, makes us the more readily draw attention to each 

 protection that is suggested. Mr. Lloyd's " sash wall-tree 

 protector," as shown below in fig. 1, has brackets fastened to 



the sash, slide in the glass, and screw down again, which 

 secmes the glass in position. 



the wall, on which is placed the sash, and shut down. Then 

 place the earth-plate perpendicularly under the spike on the 

 bracket ; press the tubular iron pillar sufficiently down into 

 tlie earth, through the plate, until you can slipthe tube on 

 the end of the spike; fasten the tube by the nut on the plate, 

 and all will be fii-m together. You wUl now put in your gut- 

 ter, slip the glass in po.^ition, and all is fixed. 



Flfi.'i is Mr. Lloyd's "portable dwarf span-roof greenhouse." 

 In glazing it, take off the moveable liUet on the fi-ont edge of 



A. Nortli end 



B. Soutli end. 



c. West side — small 

 garden. 



D. East side — uan-ow 

 jard. 



E. Buildings, 

 r. Fence. 



G. Passage 3^ feet wide. 

 IT. Door. 



HEATING A SPAN-ROOFED GREENHOUSE. 

 I SHALL be much obliged it you will give me some advice as 

 to how to set about heating with hot water my greenhouse, a 

 span-roof, 25 feet by 10 feet, of which the accompanying is a 

 rough plan. 



My great difficulty arises from want of space for a stokehole 

 outside for the furnace ; I cannot have one without the greatest 

 uiconvenience owing to my confined 

 space. Would it answer to have it on 

 the left -hand side of the door, with 

 an u'on grating to lift up or down? Of 

 course, this would be constant trouble. 

 Or could the furnace be placed at the 

 south-east corner, and the pipe in pass- 

 ing round the house be sunk so as to 

 be below the floor at the entrance ? 

 Or would you recommend one of the 

 iron stoves and boiler to be placed in- 

 side the house, or a gas-stove, if it 

 could be used without injury to the 

 plants ? With respect to the last two 

 plans, I must say from exi)erience that 

 I have not much faith in expedients of 

 this sort, and would rather, if possible, 

 have something that there is no doubt 

 about. Wm you add what size of 

 pipes should be used, and what sort 

 and size of boiler ? Could not the lat- 

 ter be placed inside the house under 

 the stage and fed from the outside? 

 Any fm-ther ruformation will be most 

 valuable, as I am cntkely ignorant on 

 the subject of hot-water heating. 



Of course, if it were not for the dust, 

 it would bq pleasanter on snowy nights 

 to feed the furnace from inside the 

 house, or, at any rate, under some 

 sort of cover. Could this be managed ? — C. A. 



[This is just one of those cases which, simple though it is, 

 involves as much consideration as heatiug a range of houses. 

 No doubt " C. A." thought he had told everything to enable 

 one to give a reply as to the different plans he proposes ; but 

 these things he forgets — the height of the house at the apex, 

 and the internal an-angement of the stages. 



The entrance door being at tlie north end, and in the middle 

 of the end, I should conclude that he means the path to be 

 up the middle, and the stage or platform on each side, one of 

 the most economical aiTangements in such a house. For a 

 house from 1'2 to 15 feet in width, it might be better to have a 

 central platform and a narrower stage or wide shelf all round 

 the sides. The matter is important, as from the limited space 

 of the passage and yard on the north and east side of the 

 house, the possibOity of having a stokehole there depends on 

 the shallowness of the stokehole, and the consequent greater 

 elevation of the pipes inside of the building. These pipes 

 could be considerably raised either under the sides or the 

 central stage, and then a stokehole from 3J feet square, and 

 from '2J to 'A feet in depth would answer well, as if the boiler 

 were chiefly inside of the house, though covered over with its 

 Uues, there would be abundance of room to use a short-handled 

 shovel, and no great depth would be necessary. A very deep 

 and a very narrow stokehole is unpleasant to work, as there 

 must be a sort of ladder to get up and down. True, " C. A." 

 may sink the pipes as he Ukes, either under the doorway or 

 beneath the path altogether, having a grating over it ; but the 

 lower the pipes the lower in proportion must be the stokehole, 

 and he must go down into something like a well instead of 

 only two or tlu'ee steps. 



There is another iioint that strikes me — though there is 

 little room on the north or east-side passages. Is there not 

 room in the Uttle garden on the west side? In all such cases 

 where a stokehole is to be outside, and its top is used as a 

 pathway or merely as a protection from wet, etc., nothing 

 answers better than two hinged wooden lids — say, if the width 

 is from .SJ to 4 feet, the lids made in two pieces so as to open 

 more easily and conveniently. 



Under the circumst.ances and to avoid sinking, I would have 

 a small rather flat saddle boiler, have th.at inside the house, 



